Top Quotes of the Year

By Ed Fitzgerald, Macomb Daily Staff Writer

Thursday, January 3, 2013

People say the darndest things. The following quotes are my favorites that appeared in The Macomb Daily this past year. But, as usual, I’d also like to thank everyone who was willing to talk even after they see us and our notepads approaching.

“This attempted eviction was stifled because we brought in evidence. We brought in actual live bed bugs. The bed bugs were evicted from the court, but my client wasn’t evicted from his home. It was a good day.”

— Attorney James Galen whose client Frank Manion took his landlord to court when his Mount Clemens apartment became infested with bedbugs.

“If I let everyone bring their dog in here, it would not be a family restaurant, it would be a dog restaurant.”

— Pllumb Malaj, owner of Lake Breeze restaurant in Harrison Township, who refused service to a man who said he couldn’t walk in the restaurant without the help of his dog.

“Take a shower with no dudes around.”

— Danielle Amorino said the above request — and pizza — topped the wish list of Senior Airman 1st Class Shane Cannon who was returning to the 127th Wing at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.

“Mr. Bettcher is not the sharpest tool in the shed and is easily intimidated.”

— Attorney Azhar Sheikh taking a different tact in defending his client who made incriminating comments after being accused of assault.

“I’m waiting to see how much weight I lose.”

— Millie Nevinski finds a silver lining on the exercise she would get after the elevator broke at her Eastpointe senior complex. She lives on the fifth floor.

“Schwarzenegger.”— Clifford Halverson, 92, a Warren retiree who didn’t really want to answer when our reporter asked him who he voted for in the Republican presidential primary.

— John Crombe, an adviser for Bishop Foley robotics students, assuring reporters the robot would not throw a baseball too hard at the catcher, Detroit Tigers mascot PAWs.

“We need to continue to make good financial decisions and to spend the taxpayers’ money wisely until we get out of this bad economy.”

— William Sowerby, Clinton Township treasurer, who obviously doesn’t intend to make bad financial decisions once the economy gets good, even though it sounds that way.

“Sometimes people are too old to fight.”

— Attorney E. Philip Adamaszek on his 77-year-old client, Helen Gvozdich of Roseville, who decided to plead guilty to embezzling over $50,000 from St. Stevan Decanski Serbian Orthodox Church in Warren.

“I think you need to ask yourself, does the foot fit in the shoe and can we get the correct sized shoe for it to fit.”

— Armada Township’s John Paterek in discussing a nearby mud bog event. With all that mud and all those shoes, I think someone is going to track in on the floor.

“Thou shalt not steal’ is one of the tenets that people who typically oppose the Freedom From Religion Foundation supposedly live by. I guess it’s all part of the war on reason.”

— Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the FFRF, which had stolen its Christmas-time sign in Warren that proclaimed there was no heaven.

“It’s a personal outrage to me that anyone would stoop so low — set out feed and wait and ambush the deer.”

— Warren Mayor James Fouts denouncing the low-lifes (his word and mine) who illegally shot and killed a deer last month. Unfortunately for deer, setting out feed, waiting and ambushing are also key ingredients of legal hunting.